Welp, I followed up on the lead, but no Henry. I found a tent where someone might be living, a goose, a woodchuck, a couple ducks, a handful of frogs, a bunch of songbirds, some cacti (??) and a metric ton of poison ivy, but no Hank. (And when I got home, I found twothree FIVE ticks.)

I am going to fucking kill him when I find him.

I also went to the animal shelter. MAN is that a depressing place. So many pleading cats and kittens. Good lord.

Yeah, I whispered to the girl showing me around, "I don't know how you do it," and she said, "yeah. It's hard."

I totally wanted to take them all home (and so many kittens! It's Kitten Season, apparently!) but I figure it would be more polite to wait until after he's returned, so that he didn't think I tried to replace him.